An anti-Zionist rabbi said he was attacked in Amsterdam because of Israel.

Josef Antebi, an anti-Israel Orthodox Jew who lives in Amsterdam, told JTA he was assaulted on June 23 in the Dutch capital by a young man who “had relatively dark skin and didn’t look very Dutch, or at least didn’t look like his family has been living in Holland for centuries.”

Antebi said he was walking down the street when a car almost hit him. The attacker exited the vehicle and threatened to hit Antebi, who then took a picture of the attacker with his cellular phone. “He shouted negative things about my religion and about my people,” said Antebi, who was born in Israel but says he does not recognize that country’s right to exist and describes himself as a Palestinian Jew.

According to Antebi, he turned to a fishmonger operating a street stall and asked him to call the police as the attacker was approaching, but the fishmonger “just motioned ‘no.’” The attacker caught up with Antebi and kicked him in the stomach, the rabbi said. “You could see it wasn’t the first time he did this, he had obviously trained in martial arts,” added Antebi, who said he collapsed to the ground unable to breath. Antebi, 50, was taken to hospital, examined and released with minor injuries after filing a complaint with police.

“People hear about the atrocities, the way the Zionist state is treating the nations around them, and they are angry about it,” Antebi told JTA. “I’m not surprised he did what he did, it’s human behavior. The one to blame is the Zionist state, which is doing a lot of bad things to people.”

A spokesperson for the Amsterdam police told JTA police are investigating but are not certain the attack was anti-Semitic. “Currently, we are assuming it is an argument about traffic that got out of hand,” she said.

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People were attacking Jews long before the establishment of the modern
state of Israel - the only difference now is that we have means to
defend ourselves with! It's ironic that this guy is against the one safe
haven for Jews!

Why should such a person been even mentioned in the media here. Maybe
one of these times after he has been attacked again he will realise (I
must be dreaming) that Israel is his only bastion of security.

I live in Holland too, and it is a FACT that the state of Israel causes
friction in our Muslim-community, people are more and more aware of
the atrocities committed, and feel powerless because mainstream-media
will not cover it. That is why these eruptions of violence and hate
occur , and peaceful Jews can be a victim. This Rabbi got it right..

"Atrocities committed"??? In Israel? Against Arabs? Do you
realize that Arabs in the ARAB states surrounding Israel are being
slaughtered in large numbers (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt) but
Arabs in Israel are safer and richer than anywhere else in the
neighborhood? Atrocities? Can you say Arab P R O P A G A N D A ???

I am aware of violence in surrounding states, and there is a lot to be
said about that too. But if you start shouting 'propaganda', you might
as well call me nazi. It aren't Arabs alone who are complain about the
situation in the West-bank and Gaza, also Israeli citizens and even IDF
soldiers. ( can you say D-9 ?)

Blaming the State of Israel for acts of violence that Dutch citizens
perpetrate against one another is the absolute epitome of childish
denial of responsibility for one's own behavior - regardless o9f whether
one is Muslim or otherwise. It is a sign of societal insanity.

1.4 million arabs are israeli citizens with full rights, are judges in
the High Court, doctors and managers in hospitals, professors in
universities, high rank officers in the police and army, players in the
Israeli soccer team, and have a higher standard of living than the arabs
in all neighboring countries.